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A day in my life
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Author
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Murray, B.C.
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3 pages
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A DAY IN MY LIFE Awakened by the brilliance of 6:00AM lights, I arise, grab my toiletries and walk down the long, stale white corridor toward the restroom. First, I must wade through a bevy of inmates blocking my path while vehemently discussing lat night's televised basketball game. These men do so without any consideration for those still trying to sleep or pass through. I step across the threshold and into a room with two rows of sinks where all sorts of men — white, black, Mexican, t...
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apw:12353162
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-26T10:57:52.741Z
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A look in on the prison performing arts theater and poetry classes
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Author
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Jaynes, Bev
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3 pages
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I wish you could be witness to the enrichment and achievement, the intellectual stimulation, and the soulful creative expression going on during the Prison Performing Arts theater and "spoken word" poetry classes in WERDCE, the women's prison in Vandalia, MO and Thursdays and in the men's prison down the road in Bowling Green, MO, on Fridays. PPA is a non-profit organization based in St.Louis, MO, which provides opportunities for personal growth and character development t...
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apw:12347831
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
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A voice from inside
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Author
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Rose, Amber
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Date
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43726
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5 pages
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September 18 - 2019 A Voice From Inside Human Kind The rich taking from the poor, a story as old as time. How do the rich get away with what they do? How do we allow these things to continue to happen? The love of money is the route of all evil, money changes people. It sounds crazy doesn't it? I mean, how do you make money off of broke? If it isn't there, it isn't there. You can't squeeze money out of nothing, zero, 0. Let me tell you... Pretend to be doing society a favo...
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apw:12359227
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:19:11.593Z
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Alone
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Author
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Murray, B.C.
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2 pages
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ALONE Alas, I am alone and destined to remain so. No longer can the burning, innate longing for love, companionship and re-affirmation of my worth reverberate inside my heart and mind. Is this due to years apart from others? Or is it because of my transgressions that I am left with no choice but to accept the exile society will impose that separates me even from those who ODCG felt affection from and for me? Once thrust back into the world from which I am now ten years removed, it would be fo...
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apw:12356135
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-23T19:24:33.952Z
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An artist behind bars
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Author
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Cosgrove, Kristine
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4 pages
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"An Artist Behind Bars" by Kristine Cosgrove Let me see if I can try to describe what it's like to be in prison. First, it's every horror story you can imagine if you happen to run up against someone suffering from borderline personality disorder and low self-esteem. I like to imagine I'm only here impersonating a fake prisoner because I'm trying out for the new Scorcese film - and I'm up against Jennifer Connelly, and she beat me out of the role in House of...
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apw:12363082
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Date Uploaded
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2021-06-10T15:41:51.733Z
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Anger
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Author
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Murray, B.C.
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Date
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2018-01-28
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1 page
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Anger Anger for me is unachievable. I am though certainly no pacifist. I don't spurn anger, hostility, or even vindictiveness. Such feelings are simply beyond my reach. Some would regard me as fortunate; say the world would benefit from more like me;‘ or argue that anger holds no value. Such sentiment alas is naive, even risible. There are man like m self. Peo le for whom roactive emotions are lost to a resolve of ho elessness where resorts to _ P gestures preclude the inducement of ange...
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apw:12352774
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-16T02:33:45.465Z
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Anxiety
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Author
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Murray, B.C.
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Date
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2018
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1 page
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ANXIETY Like a leaking cistern, anxiety,slowly bleeds all semblance of life from one'sA A being. As soon as a rare detente is reached, another anguishing tempest appears .atop life's mountains of Volatile, tormenting emotions pressing everything below until the-cavity of one's heart is breached further, causing one's will to demit faster, more excruciatingly that before. Eventually, anxiety morphs into a depressed emptiness offering only a teasing, hollow eye in a storm th...
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apw:12352669
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-15T21:38:32.89Z
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Are you in charge?
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Author
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Kuhn-Brown, Erin
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2 pages
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Are You in Charge? By Erin Kuhn-Brown I almost wrote a kite of concern this morning to our AWD Oliver, and quickly had to remind myself how absolutely pointless that would be. I have found in the course of serving almost 20 years that if a topic matter is of concern, and brought to staffs attention, the focus is not on addressing the matter brought to staff, rather staffs concern is to tell as many of their peers, who pointed it out. (See attached letter - to be included in essay) Warden Oliv...
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apw:12360532
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Date Uploaded
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2021-02-03T15:37:20.319Z
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Auto biography of an incarcerated sex offender
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Author
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Senior, Daniel
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Date
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2016-12-12
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12 pages
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12/12/2016 Autobiography of an incarcerated sex offender This is my first essay for the APWA. I will give some general background of my childhood, then tell of my incarceration experience. My name is Daniel Isaac Senior. I am forthcoming about my own life, but I do ask that my family remains anonymous. Please do not look them up or try to contact them. I recognize the purpose of this archive is to teach and learn about the United States criminal justice system and therefore my personal life i...
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apw:12347887
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:42:30.572Z
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Bloom grown from a crack in the wall
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Author
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Jaynes, Bev
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6 pages
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Bloom grown from a crack in the wall By Beverly Jaynes Reaching light from deceptive darkness, its seed mysteriously nurtured within, imposing walls cannot contain its growth. Breaking free unexpectantly, from bleak, stark surroundings, the bloom, the more beautiful. for its unlikely flourishing. A surprising sign of hope, graced by opportunity. The transformation of transformed individuals - the diseased, debilitated, disadvantaged, addicted, depressed, degraded, disgraced, disillusioned, di...
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apw:12347846
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:42:28.91Z
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Choices
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Author
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Huey, Taylor
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8 pages
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Taylor Huey-Choices There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. Elie Wiesel said that “whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.” In the telling of my story, I am giving you my most vulnerable self. My name is Taylor. I am 36 years old and have been incarcerated for the past 17 years. How had I come to commit offenses that brought such a lengthy prison term? I courted danger. I courted danger because danger was one of the few things ...
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apw:12356626
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-24T16:36:57.669Z
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Choosing to love
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Author
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Kirby-Watts, Courtney
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3 pages
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Choosing to love Betrayal and wounds. I was the one who betrayed and caused wounds. Not an easy thing to live with. How do you rebuild, recreate, begin again once you have caused so much destruction? is it even possible to repair broken relationships? I say yes, God says yes. I say yes because God said yes to me. I gave my nothingness to God who took it and made something. I hurt those closest to me. I betrayed them in the worst way possible. Yet God has brought us back together. My family ha...
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apw:12353178
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-26T10:58:08.793Z
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Cold days in purgatory
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Author
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Murray, B.C.
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1 page
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COLD DAYS IN PURGATORY BY B.C. Murray The divergent distractions that exists inside a prison compound are often enough to hoard away feelings of hopelessness and despair. Nothing though is cogent enough to overcome the morose feelings to which every prisoner eventually succumbs. As hard as one may try; loneliness, despair, insufficiency, and shame supercede all other emotions regardless of efforts to the contrary. Just as on the outside, the weather dictates emotions. When cold, wintry, days ...
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apw:12352662
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-15T21:38:26.465Z
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Come holy spirit and help
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Author
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Clement, Kathryn A.
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Date
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2019-03-14
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5 pages
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[no title] 3-14-19 To A.P.W.A.: Come Holy Spirit and help me to write this experience in Nevada State for your purpose & glory. To help women in FMUCC, in Jesus name. Since I've been in FMUCC, Sept. 25, 2012, I am blown away how the legal system and Nevada State treat the women and their families. One thing is weird (women) been in FMUCC for false accusations; trump up charges; being thrown under the bus by the attorneys, DA, judges {bias}. I believe there's a scheme been going ...
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PID
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apw:12357721
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:30:50.667Z
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Title
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Come holy spirit, I need
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Author
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Clement, Kathryn A.
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10 pages
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NO TITLE Come Holy Spirit, I need you to help me. Wrote this for your purpose and Glory. To start off, I have been incarcerated now 7 years in FMWCC, Las Vegas, NV. This is my 1st time in a Correctional Center which it has been called to rehabilitate women from bad behavior till Ms. McClure died. Now its a place of control issue in my opinion. Since I've been in here, I've seen a lot of changes. I am considered a "child case" due to the attorneys, DA, Judges, were bias in ...
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apw:12356727
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-28T18:32:45.75Z
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Title
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Confusion
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Author
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Murray, B.C.
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Date
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2018-02-06
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1 page
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Confusion Would life be worth living without confusion? What purpose would then require our rising from bed each day? Or maneuvering for legions of hours along life's jagged pathways? lf content, then what would be our impetus for confronting, waging war with all that perplexes, and even exhilarates us? Our hubris endeavors to put confusion to rest once and for all. We pray to awake without ambiguities, issues to confront and coerced into contesting. The child naively relishes adulthood&...
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apw:12352776
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-16T02:33:47.132Z
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Convicted terrorist Kevin James speaks
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Author
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Ziegler-Wurtz, Nashay M.
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3 pages
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Nashay Wurtz Homework assignment: 5 Essay: 2 Ch. 9: terrorism Convicted terrorist Kevin James speaks in an interview bringing to light the issues that terrorism is present in modern day prisons. Authors of our text, Corrections in the 21st Century, Schmullger and Smykla reference the core issues are not only recruitment, but a danger that exists with the growing “gangs” or, better labeled, sophisticated social networks. These gangs are key to potentially planning terroristic acts within the f...
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apw:12357964
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:38:48.831Z
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Title
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Corrections is generally considered the
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Author
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Ziegler-Wurtz, Nashay M.
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11 pages
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Corrections is generally considered the final stage in the criminal justice process. After a crime has been discovered, reported and the defendant convicted through the court process, corrections takes control. Authors of the 8th edition Corrections in the 21st Century, Smallenger and Smykla define corrections as...management of individuals accused and convicted of crimes. The President of Commission of Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice States "Corrections is the part of the ...
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apw:12357735
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:31:19.731Z
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Title
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Corrections: An exercise in futility
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Author
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Bingner, Alice G.
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11 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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Alice Bingner 3744 Dexter Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Category: Personal Essay Word Count: 2,246 Corrections: an Exercise in Futility Currently, in the United States, it costs upwards of $50,000,000,000 plus a year to incarcerate more than 2,000,000 men, women and children. And the expense by no means stops there. While 10 percent of prisoners are menaces from whom the public needs protection, the rest would be better served - and so would society - if there were alternative sentencing for non-v...
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apw:12358330
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T18:56:23.837Z
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Did I sign a death sentence?
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Author
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Farley, Darrell
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Did I sign a death sentence? I was arrested on my birthday in 2013. I had the right to remain silent just didn't have the ability. I was lost and very confused. Placing an ad on craigslist personals which you must be of legal age to use. The cop who arrested me said he hates LGBTQ people. Upon arrest in a parking lot, they didn't identify themselves as an officer, guns drawn to my head. I was forced into a confession. The tool used to allegedly commit my crime, a blackberry. I was o...
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PID
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apw:12359336
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:21:56.66Z
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Directed towards the Medical, Programing and Parole Board
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Author
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Kamrowski, Kenneth R.
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4 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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[no title] (1) My essay will be directed to the policies of the medical, programing, and parole board. First the medical charging us wards of the state so much in medical bills. For over 5 years they of taken thousands of dollars of just my money that I received from working or family. We have a co-pay for every doctor visit here of $5.00. We pay $2.00 each month for every medication we receive. Mine ar 8 for congestive failure which comes to $16.00 per month. Same for dental or eye doctor. S...
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PID
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apw:12350234
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T12:18:13.515Z
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